Basilica of the Sagrada Familia
Stone basilica of spiraling spires, the world's tallest church, still under construction.
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This guide to the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona opens with a tram accident on a city street in June 1926, and the disheveled old man nobody recognized. From there it goes back to the thirty-one-year-old architect who inherited a half-built neo-Gothic shell and tore up the plans, and forward through a civil war that destroyed his own plaster models. Along the way it stops at the crypt below where you stand, where that architect is buried.
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